Uncle John’s Band, which plays Ringside Cafe in St. Petersburg, Florida on Nov. 23, 2023. Credit: Photo by Ryan McGibbeny c/o Gasparilla Music Festival

There’s not a lot of live music happening on Thanksgiving, but there is a show to be Grateful for. Uncle John’s Band is the Bay area’s longest-tenured Dead tribute act, and it plays for free at this staple of the St. Pete bar scene that’s had a few different homes over the years.

Guitarist Rich Whiteley (pictured above, left) told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay that some iteration of Uncle John’s Band will be at Ringside Cafe, St. Petersburg on Thursday, Nov. 23, although he’s unlikely to make it.

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This article appears in Nov 9-15, 2023.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...